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Winchester 1885 LTD .405 Win. High Wall Rifle

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Winchester 1885 LTD .405 Win. High Wall Rifle
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Offered for sale is a great example of a Winchester/Miroku 1885 Limited Series .405 Winchester High Wall Rifle. The rifle features a 28" octagon barrel, tang sight, checkered walnut stock, blue'd finish, rear barrel ramp sight, and falling block action. The Winchester Model 1885 is a single-shot rifle with a falling-block action. It was principally designed by John Browning. Two models were produced, the Low Wall and the High Wall. In 2005, Winchester reintroduced their famed 1885 Single Shots, labeled the Limited Series. The 21st-century Winchester Single Shot rifles are built with modern technology and steels, enabling them to fire modern smokeless cartridges; the currently popular cartridges of .17 Remington, .243 Winchester and .30-06 Springfield were offered with standard rubber recoil pads and straight butt plates. However, four of those Limited Series Model 1885 SSs were subtitled Traditional Hunters. Those four rifles, in calibers .38-55 and .405 Winchester, .45-70 Government, and .45-90 BPCR, were built in the style of the 19th century, with crescent steel butt plates and 19th-century style folding tang sights, along with full octagon 28-inch-long barrels. Their rifling, in the case of the .38-55, are the (Winchester) traditional one complete turn within eighteen inches (1-18") with rifle grooves at .376, and rifle lands measuring .368 of an inch. The .45-70 is by far the most readily available of these four vintage cartridges. This rifle is in good condition, with little wear to the finish and some handling marks on the furniture. One hairline crack on the forend. The rifling mechanics are strong and smooth with a bright bore. Modern firearm. FFL transfer or NICS background check required. The serial number is 0046MW850